Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz

Infobox Scientist


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field = Applied mathematics
Complex systems
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Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory.

In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", is widely regarded as a seminal contribution to the new interdisciplinary field of "complex networks," whose applications reach from graph theory and statistical physics to sociology, business, epidemiology, and neuroscience. As one measure of this paper's impact, it is the most highly cited article about networks in the past decade, according to the ISI Web of Science.

Strogatz's books include the textbook "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos" and the trade book "Sync", chosen as a Best Book of 2003 by Discover Magazine.

Career and recognition

Strogatz attended the Loomis Chaffee School (1972-1976) and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1980. He was a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1980-1982, and then received a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1986 for his research on the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle. After spending three years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and Boston University, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at MIT in 1989. In 1994 he moved to Cornell where he is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, as well as a Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the current Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics.

Strogatz has been lauded for his ability as a teacher and communicator. In 1991 he was honored with the E.M. Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MIT's only institute-wide teaching award selected and awarded solely by students. He has also won several teaching awards from Cornell's College of Engineering, including the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Teaching Award (2006), given to a faculty member selected by engineering students for exemplary teaching. At the national level, Strogatz received the JPBM Communications Award in 2007. Presented annually, this award recognizes outstanding achievement in communicating about mathematics to nonmathematicians. The JPBM represents the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

elected publications

Papers

* Cite journal
author = Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz
title = Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks
journal = Nature
year=1998
month = June
volume=393
pages=440–442
url = http://www.tam.cornell.edu/tam/cms/manage/upload/SS_nature_smallworld.pdf
doi = 10.1038/30918

* Cite journal
author = Steven Strogatz
year = 2001
month = March
title = Exploring complex networks
journal = Nature
volume = 410
pages = 268–276
doi = 10.1038/35065725

Books

* Cite book
last = Strogatz
first = Steven
year = 2003
title = Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
publisher = Hyperion
id = ISBN 0-7868-6844-9

* Cite book
last = Strogatz
first = Steven
year = 2001
title = Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)
publisher = Perseus Books Group
id = ISBN 0-7382-0453-6

External links

* [http://tam.cornell.edu/Strogatz.html homepage at Cornell]
* [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/strogatz.html www.edge.org profile]
* [http://units.aps.org/units/dbp/newsletter/upload/August-2005.pdf Interview]


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